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May 29, 2026 · 1 min read
Yutaka Iwamoto's disclosed holding moved to 729,000 shares and rights, or 11.89%, from 9.70%, and a later same-day filing put it at 12.03%. That later report was tied to a lock-up letter and a 55,600-share lending agreement with Daiwa Securities.
May 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Value Creation said G-Plan-related transactions previously booked as sales and outsourcing costs will be cancelled and treated as non-operating income, a change that cut sales for the year ended February 2025 to 3,071,001 thousand yen from 3,431,976 thousand yen and turned operating profit into a 233,904 thousand yen loss from a 121,616 thousand yen profit. The company then booked impairments and concluded deferred tax assets were no longer recoverable, extending corrections across reports from the year ended February 2024 to the first nine months of the year ending February 2026.
May 29, 2026 · 1 min read
The company said it could not confirm compliance with the Growth market's market-capitalisation maintenance standard by the end of its improvement period, so the stock will be designated under review from June 1. Trading is set to continue while Tokyo Stock Exchange assesses its application to move to the Standard market, which the company says it meets on its own calculations.
May 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Axelmark wants Convano to buy 45 million new shares at ¥20 for a ¥900 million equity injection and provide a commitment-type term loan facility of up to ¥3 billion. If the package closes on July 2, Convano would become parent and controlling shareholder with 68.91% of voting rights, dilution would run to 221.53% against shares outstanding and 221.60% against voting rights, and several proposed board nominees would come from Convano's orbit.
May 29, 2026 · 1 min read
TKP said Riverfield held 60.79% of voting rights as of Feb. 28. The company also said it had no transactions with the controlling shareholder and that any future dealings would go through board review on terms comparable to third-party transactions.
May 29, 2026 · 2 min read
QLS said its care-services subsidiary Nagomi will buy all 180 shares of Dandan on June 1, giving the group full control of an Akita City operator that runs one short-stay residential care facility. Dandan reported ¥234.3 million in revenue and ¥2.167 million in operating profit in the year ended November 2025, while QLS says the undisclosed-price deal should have only a minor effect on consolidated results.
May 29, 2026 · 1 min read
Disney Sparkle Link Stars moved from the first half of the year ending January 2027 to the third quarter, with management citing extra development and review time to improve quality. The company is still reviewing the effect on results.
May 29, 2026 · 3 min read
BlueMeme plans to move its low-code and agile DX business into a wholly owned subsidiary on Oct. 1, rename the listed parent BlueMeme Group and let the operating unit take the BlueMeme name, provided shareholders approve the plan on June 26 and required clearances arrive. The company says the restructure is meant to address delays in disclosure and internal-management issues, while the impact on consolidated results should be minor because the business is staying inside the group.
May 29, 2026 · 2 min read
The FSA's May 29 draft widens the framework for certified public accountants and audit firms from money laundering and terrorist financing to include proliferation financing, and it ties the approach to FATF's risk-based standard. The draft sets out transaction-time confirmation, customer and beneficial-owner checks, extra scrutiny for high-risk cases and recordkeeping, so firms have a fairly clear direction of travel even if the rulebook is not final yet.
May 29, 2026 · 2 min read
From June 1, prefectural police can send special-fraud tracing inquiries online through the National Police Agency to nine participating banks, including Mizuho Bank, MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Bank, Resona Bank, Seven Bank, Rakuten Bank, AEON Bank, SBI Shinsei Bank and Japan Post Bank. The point is to replace mailed and other written inquiries that often arrived after proceeds had already been moved on, giving banks and police a better shot at identifying destination accounts and freezing them sooner.
May 29, 2026 · 2 min read
At its May 19-20 meeting in Basel, the Basel Committee agreed to publish a report on responses to non-malicious ICT incidents, advanced a targeted review of banks' crypto-asset exposures and considered targeted revisions to liquidity-risk principles. It also flagged private-credit interconnectedness and AI's ability to strengthen, or accelerate, cyber incidents, a reminder that supervisors are treating tech risk and old-fashioned funding risk as part of the same agenda.
May 29, 2026 · 1 min read
The fund reduced its position to 752,800 securities, with the holding ratio down to 0.0892 from 0.0995 as of May 22. Of the remaining exposure, 610,000 securities are share subscription rights, so the overhang question has eased rather than vanished.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Simplex Financial Holdings posted revenue of ¥22.5 billion for the year ended March 2026, up from ¥16.3 billion, while net profit attributable to owners climbed to ¥10.6 billion from ¥7.1 billion. Management says assets under management rose 2.9%, but performance fees jumped 53.6%, which is where most of the operating leverage showed up. Split-adjusted earnings per share were ¥317.33 versus ¥137.14 a year earlier, and cash and cash equivalents finished March at ¥23.6 billion. The company is not giving earnings guidance for the current year and has left the dividend forecast undecided.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Toyo Corporation kept revenue guidance unchanged at ¥2,622 million for the year ending March 2026, but cut operating profit to ¥102 million from ¥136 million, ordinary profit to ¥38 million from ¥73 million, and net profit attributable to parent shareholders to ¥22 million from ¥44 million. The reason is an inventory review, not a sales miss. The company said part of the real-estate property costs previously included in inventory should instead be recognised as current-period cost of goods sold, which pushes down profit while leaving revenue unchanged.
May 28, 2026 · 1 min read
CEO Motoharu Kuroi held 79.8% of voting rights as of February-end, and the company disclosed a ¥104,924 thousand debt guarantee on bank borrowing from the controller. NeuroMagic says related-party deals must be judged against ordinary terms and approved by the board.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Toyota says the June 29 effective date is unchanged for transferring the OneStream logistics-efficiency system business to OneStream Co. What changed is the balance sheet on the other side: the successor company's capital is now expected to be ¥150 million when the split takes effect, and could rise further if a Class A preferred-share allotment approved on May 28 is paid in between June 30 and July 31.
May 28, 2026 · 1 min read
After finding a tax-calculation error on gains from selling a related-company stake, Bushiroad cut net-profit guidance for the year ending June 2026 to ¥4,626 million from the mistakenly published ¥5,516 million. Revenue, operating profit and ordinary profit guidance were left unchanged.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
The company plans to cut stated capital by ¥913,212,790 to ¥426,759,789, then move the same amount through capital surplus into retained earnings to wipe out its carried-forward deficit. Shareholder approval is slated for June 24, with August 11 targeted for effect.
May 28, 2026 · 3 min read
Ito En lifted its outlook for the year ended April 2026 to ¥497.8 billion in sales from ¥495.0 billion, ¥21.6 billion in operating profit from ¥20.0 billion, and ¥23.2 billion in ordinary profit from ¥21.0 billion. Net profit guidance rose to ¥3.4 billion from ¥1.0 billion. The company said total cost cuts, solid overseas business led by North America and ASEAN, and foreign-exchange gains from a weaker yen more than offset stubborn raw-material inflation and a still-frugal consumer backdrop.
May 28, 2026 · 1 min read
Nao Kataoka and joint holder Scarsdale still report 25,600,600 shares, or 13.63% of the company, but the latest filing adds to the share-loan and collateral web around that holding. One new detail: 955,000 shares were lent to Tokai Tokyo Securities, while the filing says the voting rights stay with Kataoka.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Invesco Asset Management has begun the process to redeem the Invesco Real Asset Growth Fund early, with August 6 set as the scheduled date if the required written resolution passes. The trigger is structural rather than performance-related: the Luxembourg vehicle the fund mainly uses is itself being redeemed and has stopped accepting additional investment, and notices go to known unitholders as of May 29.
May 28, 2026 · 4 min read
What changed: Oricon cut its year-end dividend forecast for the year ending March 2027 to zero, but only if Media's tender offer succeeds. That replaces the ¥36 payout it forecast on May 8, and the board is also recommending that shareholders tender into the offer. The terms: The offer opens on May 29 and runs through July 9 at ¥1,332 a share, with settlement due to start on July 16. The bidder says it expects to buy 8,211,375 tender-eligible shares, subject to a 3,903,300-share minimum and no upper cap. The path from here: Oricon says the transaction is meant to take the company private and lead to delisting. It is also letting its takeover-response policy expire at the close of the June 25 annual meeting rather than renew it. The catch: The zero dividend is tied to the tender succeeding, and the disclosure does not say what payout would apply if the offer fails. If the tender does not acquire all eligible shares, the bidder says it plans a follow-on share consolidation that would cash out remaining minorities at the same ¥1,332 per-share price, subject to later approvals.
May 28, 2026 · 3 min read
J Group lifted its interim dividend forecast for the year ending February 2027 to ¥3 a share from ¥2, with the extra ¥1 explicitly tagged as a 30th-anniversary dividend. The year-end forecast stays at ¥2, lifting the annual total to ¥5 from ¥4. The anniversary push extends beyond cash. From the end-August shareholder register, the standing meal-voucher scheme becomes richer at higher holding tiers, and shareholders with at least 100 shares will also receive a one-off ¥1,000 anniversary voucher in late October.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
BlueMeme barely changed revenue guidance for the year ending March 2026, trimming it to ¥3,299 million from ¥3,300 million. Profit took the hit instead: operating profit is now seen at ¥125 million versus ¥150 million, ordinary profit at ¥130 million versus ¥150 million, and net profit attributable to parent shareholders at ¥83 million versus ¥100 million. Management blamed heavier operating expenses from engineer recruitment, outsourced support while new hires are still in training, and higher hiring costs. The company also says the figures remain unaudited estimates, and its June 26 annual meeting will need a continuation session because audit procedures on the year's accounts are not yet complete.